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| Pilar Corrias | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pilar Corrias |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Established | 2008 |
| Founder | Pilar Corrias |
| Type | Commercial contemporary art gallery |
Pilar Corrias is a London-based contemporary art gallery founded in 2008 by a Spanish-born gallerist. The gallery is noted for presenting early solo exhibitions in the United Kingdom by international artists, fostering careers across painting, sculpture, installation, and video. It operates in Chelsea and Mayfair and engages with institutions, museums, collectors, and biennials to place works within transnational contexts.
Born in Spain, Pilar Corrias studied and trained across European cultural institutions and developed early professional experience in international art centers such as Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan, and Rome. She worked within commercial and institutional settings connected to figures and organisations including Sotheby's, Christie's, Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Gallery, British Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Louvre, Pompidou Centre, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Her background intersected with curators, artists, dealers and critics associated with names such as Norman Rosenthal, Nicholas Serota, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Richard Morphet, Roselee Goldberg, Sandy Nairne, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, and institutions including Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London.
In 2008 she launched a commercial space in London that quickly became a platform for emerging and mid-career artists linked to dialogues found at Venice Biennale, Documenta, Frieze Art Fair, Art Basel, TEFAF, and Art Cologne. The gallery model combined practices resonant with curators from Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery, and Institute of Contemporary Arts while engaging collectors active in circles around Saatchi Gallery, White Cube, Gagosian Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Zuecca Projects, and Gladstone Gallery. Expansion into neighbourhoods represented by Chelsea, London and Mayfair, London aligned the gallery with historic dealers such as Pace Gallery and contemporary initiatives like Lisson Gallery.
The gallery has mounted solo exhibitions and projects by artists whose careers intersect with institutions and events including Tate Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, MoMA PS1, Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, Hamburger Bahnhof, Kunsthalle Zürich, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunstverein München, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, MAXXI, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, and biennials such as Istanbul Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Liverpool Biennial. Artists represented or shown have included practitioners connected to the careers of Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Stanley Brouwn, Isa Genzken, Bridget Riley, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Yinka Shonibare, Gloria Friedmann, Liu Wei, Tobias Rehberger, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tacita Dean, Ragnar Kjartansson, Georg Baselitz, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Olafur Eliasson, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, and Pablo Picasso by association in exhibition histories and critical dialogue.
The gallery has collaborated with curators, museums, and institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, New Museum, MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, The Photographers' Gallery, ICA London, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstverein Hamburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, MAXXI, Museo Reina Sofía, and biennial organisers such as Frieze Projects and Artissima. Partnerships have involved curators and critics like Hans Ulrich Obrist, Okwui Enwezor, Nicolas Bourriaud, Paul Moorhouse, Phillip Dodd, Roselee Goldberg, Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Simon Martin, Kim McAleese, and institutions connected to funding bodies such as Arts Council England.
By presenting early UK solo shows and facilitating loans to museums and biennials, the gallery has contributed to artist trajectories that intersect with major museums and collectors associated with Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim, LACMA, Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The National Gallery, British Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and international fairs Frieze London, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Armory Show, FIAC, TEFAF Maastricht. The program has been discussed in outlets related to critics and writers affiliated with The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The New York Times, Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Apollo Magazine, ARTnews, and Hyperallergic.
The founder and gallery have been acknowledged in lists, profiles, and industry awards connected to cultural institutions and market platforms including recognitions associated with Christie's Education, TEFAF Art Market Report, Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, Art Fund, Art Dealers Association of America, Society of London Art Dealers, and editorial features in Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, ArtForum, Frieze, and The Art Newspaper.
Category:Contemporary art galleries in London